> How would you incentivize them, aside from their paychecks and pensions? Also, why do they need to be incentivized when the rest of the world just goes to work and does their jobs? Because if we don’t do our jobs, we get fired. But they don’t.

It sounds like you work for a paycheck because you can be fired. Because you are replaceable.

Cops generally are not replaceable. All the people that want to be cops in a general geographic area are already cops.

• If you are replaceable = no leverage with the employer

• Not replaceable = you have the upper hand

You've read plenty of Karl Marx. This should be obvious to you.